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Wembley Grand Hall Curtains Close with Pearce Hire
When the final event was held at the Wembley Conference Centre, Pearce Hire was brought in to install the complex PA system for an acoustically challenging and unusual event.
With the continuing development of the Wembley site, the next stage of the regeneration is the pulling down of Wembley Conference Centre after 30 years of holding numerous events including Prince Charles’ 30th Birthday party, the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest and the BAFTA’s. For the final time, the Grand Hall was used by an American composer, Yoav Goren to showcase his work to a selected audience.
Goren, who is responsible for creating trailer music for many blockbuster movies including Spiderman, Van Helsing and X-Men, has developed these trailers into full music compositions and was performing them using a 65 piece orchestra, 60 piece choir and full rock band! Bringing in the likes of Feeder’s drummer, Mariah Carey’s ex-guitarist, one of London’s leading chamber choirs and leading vocalists, the show was set to be something quite different and its nature ensured that.
Sound specialist Pearce Hire was contracted to install a bespoke PA system for the event. There were several challenges with working in the venue, including the vast quantity of both people and instruments on the stage which resulted in 120 open microphones and therefore particular attention had to be taken with the design of the system to ensure that the engineers had full control of the system with sufficient isolation from the stage but at the same time the system had to achieve coherent reinforcement that was focused from the stage.
Andy White, sound technician for Pearce Hire commented: “We created a complex, bespoke audio system in the Grand Hall due to the audience being positioned around the stage and of course more than 120 people performing on stage for the show. We installed in excess of 60 speakers from the L’acoustics range with control by Yamaha Digital desks and XTA speaker processors.”
18th August 2006
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